Jump to content
DVDVR Message Board

Recommended Posts

2020 sucks for us all. Remember the Australian Wildfires? We don't even talk about that anymore. 2020 has sucked for me.

Last week I was looking for some blank journals for my kid to sketch in (she's a drawing machine) from one of the many bins in the basement. She gave me back a plain black one a couple days later, saying it had writing in it already.

It contained some poetry, mostly haiku, that I used to obsessively compose during my downtime when I still was creative. I often find piles of club flyers or newspaper pages or pocket notepads full of scrawled doggerel. I fancied doing a zine of it, even.

Anyway, here are some examples. Please contribute. Let your freak flag fly, be formal or spontaneous, serious or humorous, no judgments (just like therapy)...

--------------------------------------------

The greatest moment / of impact: one inch before / the leg drop connects. 

--------------------------------------------

The mantle of bleached / blonde tresses is a crown of / genius carny thorns.

--------------------------------------------

Los Gringos Locos: / real heat that would burn up / an indy worker.

----------------------------------------------

A stiff chair shot to / the skull - sure beats working ar / Walmart 'til you die.

----------------------------------------------

Black Bart chose to buy / a new duster instead of / resoling his boots.

-----------------------------------------------

circa 2005,

RAF

Link to comment
Share on other sites

EDIT:  Had a Haiku in mind but those lovely word filters came into play.  Here's something else instead:

Roses are red,

violets are blue,

Vince McMahon sucks,

and Governor DeSantis too

Edited by NikoBaltimore
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Aja Kong made her

tough Ainu ancestors proud

with her heel tactics.

---------------------------------------------

Killer Kowalski

could work a crowd, but couldn't

face his own baldness.

---------------------------------------------

The Fargo Strut must

never die. Take every chance

to do it yourself.

------------------------------------------------

Bill Apter spread the

photos out on the desk; the

story would follow.

(all circa 2005-06)

-----------------------------------------------

Dean R: more comics!!!

The ones with your daughter's art -

the word "paunts", I use.

(04/15/20)

 

- RAF

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ernie Roth knew where

to get Superstar's boas

for cheap - that's his job.

--------------------------------------------

The ref (in carny)

tells the heel where the hard

parts of rhe ring are.

--------------------------------------------

Inside Wrestling's Top

Ten "Most Dangerous Wrestlers"

list - Funk is there.

------------------------------------------

Johnny Valentine

listened to opera and

so did the whole car.

--------------------------------------------

Wrestling nerds debate

"work rate"; the spirits of old

hookers weep shoot tears.

 

(2006)

- RAF

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

A Deathmatch worker

Thrown from the roof of a bar

Got paid twenty bucks

------------

I told you Monsoon,

I told you Flair would do it,

oh will you stop Brain

----------

"Coming down the aisle"

Spoken softly by the Fink

Sound of my child hood

 

 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

VCRs that load

from the top captured many

historic pinfalls.

--------------------------------------------

The Hell's Angels (the

tag team, not the gang) were great.

What a dark gimmick.

---------------------------------------------

Crazy Saint, running

free through the casino, no

worries - Herb Abrams.

----------------------------------------------

Iron-on letters

run down sweaty tights: true folk

art in fast motion.

(02/01/06)

- RAF

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If Lou Albano's

gym bag could talk, it would say

"Vodka bottles fit".

-------------------------------------------------------

Taping up a knee

and chewing a Tylenol,

five minutes to bell.

---------------------------------------------

I never had doubts

about the efficacy

of Regal's cravat.

---------------------------------------------

Bill Dundee passed on

his carny lore, not morals.

Too busy with Elvis.

 

(02/02/06)

- RAF

 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Less workers these days

smoke cigars, more ask for egg

white omelets. For shame.

---------------------------------------------

A gigger, thirteen

dollars and a 'lude: inside

Buzz Sawyer's pockets.

----------------------------------------------

At the indie card,

all I saw were kids who learned

from video tapes.

(02/06)

------------------------------------------------

"Night And The City" -

sleazy Brit mat dealings.

Stanislaus: so sad....

(04/20/20)

-  RAF

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ring jacket in a

dead worker's closet, soon to

go to a thrift store.

-------------------------------------

The boots with spats on

them are rare now; rodeo

style are defunct.

---------------------------------------

Ludwig Borga sat

in the gym. He thinks that he

wants a cigarette..

(circa 2008)

- RAF

Link to comment
Share on other sites

INDY DARLING GETS CALLED UP

   Puro? Yes, but he

   can't work these big crowds: his small

   moves, facials, patter.

------------------------------------------------------------------

ITEMS LEFT AT AN EMPTY LOCKERROOM, 1985

   Wet towels, used gigs,

   dirty needles, beer cans

   and empty Sno Seals.

(2007)

---------------------------------------------------------------

SCENES FROM A SHOOT PANDEMIC: DEAR MR MCMAHON

   You're really going

   to go back live? Contract slave!

   But Cody? Et tu?

(04/22/20)

- RAF

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Spent my quarantine reading new posts on Driver

Better than watching Bundy or E ask the ref for a fiver

I can spit rhymes like Poffo the Genius

But unlike him I can't suck my own penis

Hope I don't get banned by our fav mod Rippa

If this post is in the wrong thread I apologize, like the time I broke HIPPA

I'l leave the rest of the poetry up to the real movers and shakers

As for me I'l stick with trashing that dentist Brit Baker

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I am too blue to

go rooting in the basement.

Poems from the now, folks.

(04/24/20 0309)

-----------------------------------------------

I watched the first five

minutes, then the last seven,

pressed the "like" button.

(0312)

-----------------------------------------------

Rick Martel: better

worker than Dino Bravo,

but without cheap smokes.

(0316)

------------------------------------------------

Tommy Rich pulled a

knife on me. I was honored -

Ex-champ. True story.

(0319)

--------------------------------------------

Baby Doll, I heard,

was a dirty jezebel.

Dusty told us so.

(0321)

--------------------------------------------

now I am blue and tired,

RAF

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...